2016-2017 Seminar Schedule
The UCR Political Economy Seminar provides a venue for graduate students and faculty from UCR and elsewhere to engage actively in interdisciplinary and state of the art research in political economy.
For more information, or if you would like to present your work at the seminar, please contact the organizers, Jana Grittersova (jana.grittersova@ucr.edu) and Matthew C Mahutga (matthew.mahutga@ucr.edu).
The Political Economy seminar meets from 3:10 PM–5:00 PM in HUMANITIES 1500, unless otherwise noted.
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| Thursday, November 3rd | Thomas Oatley, Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Banker for the World: Global Capital and American Financialization.” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, December 1st | Faisal Z. Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Princeton University “Geopolitics and the Aiding of Political Violence” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, January 19th, INTS 1128 | Cheol-Sung Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago “When Solidarity Works : Labor-civic Networks and Welfare States in the Market Reform Era.” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society and UCR Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty |
| Thursday, February 9th | William R. Clark, Charles Puryear Professor of Liberal Arts and Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University “Does Partisan Bias at the Fed Explain the ‘Republican Advantage’?” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, February 16th | Jason Beckfield, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University “Evaluating Welfare-State Convergence with Dyadic Analysis: Social Policies are Increasingly Similar, but Only in the EU” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society and UCR Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty |
| Thursday, May 11th, College Building South | Nina Bandelj, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine. “The Moral and Political Economy of Parenting” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
Seminars sponsored by the Departments of Political Science and Sociology